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  • Nº141 # Date: 2013-05-23 - 11:06
  • # Max Depth: 29.6m Duration: 48mins
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Elphinstone North

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Dive Location

  • Temp: Surf 32°C Bottom 25°C
  • Dive type : Recreational
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
  • Regulator: Mares - Abyss dfc
  • Wet suit: Aqualung - Safaga 5mm
  • Weights: 6 kg
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  • 1. Nitrox 28
  • 15L Steel     200 → 50 bar
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  • Average depth: 17m
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Species Identified

Synanceia verrucosa Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (Stonefish) Most widespread stonefish . Found on sandy or rubble areas of reef flats and shallow lagoons and in small pools during low tide well camouflaged among the substrate and sometimes even covered with algae . Solitary specie...
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Scorpaenopsis diabolus (Cuvier, 1829) (False stonefish) Relatively an uncommon inhabitant of rubble or weedy coralline-rock bottoms of reef flats and lagoon and seaward reefs . Benthic . Flashes its inner pectoral fins when disturbed . Can inflict a painful injury with its venomous dorsal sting. Often partly buried .
Pterois radiata Cuvier, 1829 (Radial firefish) A generally uncommon species that inhabits lagoon and seaward reefs . Prefers rocky reefs and seems to avoid stony corals. Coastal, sometimes in surge zones where in narrow crevices, or along rock-walls in small caves . ...
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Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) (Red lionfish)

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